Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-08
Personal.

Spurgeon, the celebrated London preacher
10 SO years old.
Frank X. Stockton will summer at his
home in Madison. N. j.
Nine. Modjeska and her husband are now
at their summer home on the Pacific Coast.
Jubilee Jugpins, the English plunger,
| recently lost fl6,00O in two nights at cards.
Dudley Buck, the composer, is at present
orpanist at Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn.
Dean LIE Breton of Jersey. father of Mrs
Langtry is described as having foe Greek
head but sensual mouth.
Professor John B. McMssser, the historian,
is building a summer cottage at Spouting
Rock, Kennebunkport, Me.
Professor Billroth, of Vienna, one of the
greatest living surgeons, pronounces Pas
tours hydrophoba treatment 6asco.
A f. Heard, of Massachusetts, Secretary
Endicott's new private secretary, has loog
been an intimate friend of his chief.
George NJ. Pullman, the palace car poten-
tate, will visit Italy next month, and, it is
said, will be createda duke by King Humbert.
DR.. Charles S. Thompson, of Hartford,
Conn, is the oldest living graduate of the
Yale Medical school. He was graduated in
1922.
Yam Phon Lee, the young Chinese gentle
man who graduated at Yale few days ago
was married on July to an American, Mics
Elizabeth Maud Jerome.
Francis Rondo, the Wisconsin pioneer, who
died last week at Fond du Lac, aged more
than 100 years, is said to have left 454 de-
scendents in three generations.
Ignatius Donnelly's Shakespeare cipher
book has been completed and as soon as the
publishers can perform the necessary work it
will be before the reading public.
Minister McLane will sail Tor America on
board the Champagne on July Is. He will
spend week in Maryland, New York ana
Wa arlington before returning to Paris
George II. johnson, of Newburg, N. Y, is
the first person who has received the degree
of doctor of science from Harvard University
Cor special attachments in mathematics.
John Russell Young denies that he has
joined the Anti-Poverty party. Mr. Young
believes in poverty within proper limitations,
and would restrict professional incomes to
$40, 900 year.
Lord Tennyson is deriving great benefit
from his yachting cruise along the English
coast with his son and Mrs. Hallam Tenny
son. The baroness did not accompany her
husband.
Lord Deleval Beresford, who became a
ranchmsn in New Mexico three years ago, is
looked upon with great respect by the COW
boys, not because he Is a lord, but because
he is ''ruster."
The Prince OF Wales originated the idea of
the Jubilee jugs which were distributed to
the London children last week. Similar cups
were distributed to the Russian populace on
the occasion of the marriage of the present
Gar to the sister of the Princess of Wales.
Col. James Stapleton of Stapleton, Ga,
has several bales of cotton that he has kept
ever since the war. He says he can keep
cotton easier than he can money, and as the
staple ceased long ago to lose in weight he
may be said to be saving as much money as
the cotton is worth.
Princess Eugene of Sweden, who takes a
great interest in the Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Animals, the other day in
vited the cab-drivers of Stockholm to "sf-
ternoon coffee" in the large hall of the Ex-
change, where a lecture about the horse and
its proper treatment was afterw ards delivered.
One of the Princess ladies in waiting
otficiated as hostess.